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The Ghostlights

By: Gráinne Murphy
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Clare McKenna, Aoife McMahon
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Can anyone really choose to be forgotten?

An elderly gentleman checks into a B&B in a small village in rural Ireland where he knows nobody. Four days later, his body is found in the lake.

The identity of their unknown guest raises questions for one family in particular, twin sisters Liv and Marianne, and their mother, Ethel, each of whom is searching for her own place in the world.

The Ghostlights brilliantly evokes the lives of the people in the town and explores the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy. What is identity? And strangerhood? What is the meaning of home, and what power do we have over whether or not we are remembered?

©2021 Gráinne Murphy (P)2021 W F Howes Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Village Ireland

Critic Reviews

"A truly brilliant debut." (Emily Mazzara, Books Ireland)

"With sentences that you will want to cut out and keep, this is an intelligent, exquisitely crafted debut." (Fiona Mitchell)

"Original and shattering." (Marianne Lee)

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Gentle story of a small rural community

The storyline slowly develops to explore the everyday life in a small, flawed but ultimately realistic family in a small rural village in the west of Ireland. The narration is perfect and the expressions and attitudes are realistic and remembered from my own childhood in a similar village. A nice escape- nothing too remarkable. Just a bit of escapism. Hope this author has subsequent books published here.

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